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London,
29/03/2007 (SPS) The Saharawi Coordinator with the UN Mission for
the referendum in the Western Sahara (MINURSO), M’Hammed Khadad,
started contacts, on Wednesday to London, with British officials and
representatives of Oil companies that signed accords with the
Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic.
The visit of Mr. Khadad to the United Kingdom aims especially to
inform the British officials about the steady position of the
Polisario Front regarding to the settlement of the conflict in
Western Sahara that languishes for more than 30 years. Mr. Khaddad
also reiterated the Saharawi position regarding the "autonomy Plan"
that Morocco is trying to promote without revealing its content.
The Polisario Front, it should be recalled, estimates that this
"plan is no more than another Moroccan manœuvre, which unique
objective is to try to deceive the international community so to
avoid the organisation of a referendum on self-determination that
constitutes the only option which is really conform to the universal
principles of democracy and human rights that are the basis for the
UN’s action".
Mr. Khadad’s visit intervenes while the UK is about to assume the
presidency of the U’s Security Council in April, which coincides
with the semester discussion of the situation of the Western Sahara
and the prorogation of the mandate of the MINURSO. (SPS)
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